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The Cost Of Smoking
Title: The Cost Of Smoking
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1199 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Cost Of Smoking
Imagine the air that you and your children breathe is being polluted with hundreds of chemicals and toxic substances, but if you smoke you don’t have to imagine. With each cigarette you smoke you are polluting your lungs and the air around you with over four thousand chemical compounds and over four hundred toxic substances. These include ammonia, which is found in household cleaners, cyanide, which is an extremely poisonous substance and butane, which …showed first 75 words of 1199 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1199 total…They can also develop asthma, which is the most common chronic childhood disease, and there is evidence that passive smoking is a risk factor in the development of asthma. In the UK, between 1,600 and 5,400 children develop asthma as a result of parental smoking. Each year, 17,000 children under five are admitted to hospital in the UK with illnesses resulting from passive smoking and 42% of children in the UK live with at least one parent who smokes.
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